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The Business of Coachella: High-Stakes Booking, Ticketing and Festival Economics | On the Record

Billboard 08 April 2026 2h ago
The Business of Coachella: High-Stakes Booking, Ticketing and Festival Economics | On the Record
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Coachella has become the biggest festival in America — and it rewrote the live music playbook in the process. Katie Bain, Billboard‘s senior music correspondent and director of Billboard Dance, joins Billboard On The Record to break down how a scrappy desert show founded by then-local promoter Goldenvoice turned into a global cultural force, from […]
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